This beer pours a clear, medium magenta colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some decent layered low-lying cloud lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

The bubbles are fairly tame in their equally playful and perfunctory frothiness, the body on the low side of your typical middleweight, and generally smooth, the raspberry essence here not really capable of messing things up. It finishes on a strong drying trend, the malt starting to think about announcing that it is giving up the ghost, with the now ethereal raspberry fruitiness having tapped out a long time ago.

Overall, not a bad fruity craft brew, but the middling nature of the raspberries that enable this brewery's temerity to use the 'Frambozen' moniker precludes me from getting particularly florid here. Easy enough to put back, I guess, especially with the well-integrated booze sort of laughing at my naivete - I can't smell or taste it, so why should I even worry, right?

Enjoyed on tap at the brewpub. Pink coloured body with a thin white head. Real raspberry aromas. Initially tart and promissing, a lot of sugar and malt base behind it made this one go the other way. i wanted the tartness. Average mouthfeel, decent drinkability.

Appearance: Deep amber with a reddish cast and orange highlights beneath a creamy pink head of foam. The head retention is limited, as is the lacing.

Aroma: Limited but pleasant aroma of berries over a soft malt base.

Flavor: Semi-sweet and just subtly tart raspberry atop a straightforward golden malt base with just a touch of bitterness and some very mild leafy/grassy hops. It's more sweet at the front of the mouth, then more tart and bitter at the swallow, but overall quite similar straight through. It finishes dry with a drop of honey-water sweet fruitiness and some minor leafy and grassy hops that all fade steadily away. The alcohol never appears, but at 7% it shouldn't. Really nicely rounded and polished. Superb balance.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied and remarkably smooth with a very fine-bubbled moderate carbonation.

Overall: Middle of the road in berry flavor, sweetness, and tartness but at the same time probably more accessible to the masses, and actually flawlessly balanced. At the very least it doesn't make the mistake of being: 1) too sweet 2) too tart 3) too fruity 4) too malty 5) too wheat - no wheat at all! 6) too hoppy 7) too bitter 8) too carbonated... and so on. One of the better raspberry ales I've tasted. I think the bigger size, and the alcohol that goes with it probably help with that. Worth trying.

Appearance: The body has an interesting shade of brown with a pink to light red tint. The head is white with a hint of pink which fades quickly. The body is hazy but I can make shapes through it.

Aroma: At first whiff I picked up a very present hop aroma, then the aroma of alcohol followed, and a very rich candy malt aroma floods in. It has a really sweet smelling aroma, like smelling raw malt syrup. The aroma reminds me of something I would personally drink during the Christmas holiday season.

Taste: I'm happy to report that it tastes like raspberries. It has a natural flavor to it. I don't know if there are any artificial flavors used in this beer but it tastes like actual raspberries. There is a bit of malt sweetness following the light tangy raspberry flavor. At the end I am picking up some hop character too. It's a good tasting beer but it's a bit muddy. There is an obvious alcohol presence that keeps popping out and is unwelcome in a paltry 7% beer.

Mouthfeel: The beer has a good body to it which supports the beer well, but it feels wholly under-carbonated.

Overall: It's an interesting beer for sure. It had a good raspberry flavor but it was pretty muddy and didn't have ample carbonation to pop anything particular out of the background. It's not a beer I would look for again but I am enjoying it while I have it.

Attractive reddish amber with a fine-grained foam in the Maredsous goblet. Warm and malty, but not overly sweet. A woody taste along with the fruit.

Really pleasant raspberry taste with a tangy note. Finishes with a dry edge and just a hint of hops. Yeasty and fruity with a slight buttery note. A nice surprise, and really a decent interpretation of the Belgian brown ale with fruit. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Bottlecraft in San Diego.

This beer pours with no head and a beautiful deep ruby red raspberry colour. It smells like raspberries and a bit of a belgiany yeasty aroma. The taste is very bitter. It thought the beer would be a little sweeter, being a fruit beer and all. Very cloying and bitter on the tongue meaning this is tough to drink more than one.

This beer was served in a tulip glass with the reddest colour I have seen in a while. The head was pinkish but the beer looked great. The nose was fruity but not too pronouced. The taste was a nice mix between commercial sweet and artisan sour. Very drinkable and well crafted, this is a different challenge for a Summer Seasonal.